Uses that could benefit from viewing target images with the Mandala at How to Use It.
Art or music appreciation and performance
Sports and eye-hand coordination
Nature appreciation and stewardship
Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design
Love-making
Story telling
Cooking
Healing
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Syndrome (TBS), and cognitive therapy
Sports
After using the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf with the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg, my awareness, coordination, and teamwork in playing basketball went to a whole new, energetic plane I never dreamed possible. Apparently, when you view art or game tapes with the Mandala, you are viewing it as an artist: always seeing the whole of the work while accurately painting its smallest detail. The sports equivalent would be players being aware of everyone else’s moves while accurately and artfully executing their own on the canvass of the court.
A key to winning is the ability to discriminate the position and moves of your opponents amidst the noise and chaos of the battle. In the photograph of the Bed of Flowers.bmp, if the yellow flowers were neutral civilians, the purple our soldiers, and the red enemy soldiers, then we would want to eliminate the noise created by the camouflage of the leaves and grass and the similarity in shapes of all the flowers. My experienced correspondence to this while playing basketball, after viewing the Bed of Flowers.bmp with the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf, seemed remarkable.
Nature Appreciation and Stewardship
Reading a San Francisco Chronicle article on Farmer Veterans.pdf and then using the Mandala at How to Do It to appreciate a Vegetable Garden enhanced my love and respect for the community of living things.
Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design
Viewing with the Mandala the poster boards for the six winners (out of 131 entries) of the SanFrancisco Rising Tides competition is a quick education in the nature of environmental design – from schematics to visionary illustration.
Q & A
Q. How do I use the Mandala with a music visualizer? A. The same way you do with target images.
Q. What is a music visualizer? A. When I insert a music CD into my Windows computer, its media player’s visualizer converts the music into a colorfully animated display in the window that would ordinarily display DVD movies. If your media player does not have this option, it is readily available as a download from Apple at www.itunes.com; It comes bundled with their software package for downloading and playing music.
Q. How could the Mandala of Inspiration be used as a mandala of healing”? A. If experiencing the minds of artists through their artworks with the aid of the Mandala gives you greater insight, you may experience other people you communicate with with greater insight as well, accompanied by the empathetic and curative effect concomitant to amicable communication. This may be enhanced when you visualize the Mandala or if you and the persons to be healed simultaneously use the Mandala in "viewing" the location of the disease.
Q. What images should not be used as objects of contemplation with the Mandala? A. Those of unconstructive value. These images may at first look superlatively attractive and capture the eye. Continuing to view them, however, can lead to images of immediate gratification of raw sex, dominance, appetite, envy, leisure, luxury, music, escapism, vengeance, avarice, judgmentalism, anger, etc., followed by withdrawal feelings of depression, confusion or rage. The Mandala may speed up the knowledge and accuracy of this, finally resulting in aversion to the image viewed. Because, however, the Mandala quickens one’s knowledge it also intensifies the initial “too good to be true” attractiveness of these images, one may be tempted to view them again later when the aversion wears off, attempting to stop when the aversion phase begins. Doing so repeatedly, however can quickly warp one’s perspective, causing the onset of a more intense withdrawal. The antidote, when not repeatedly abused, is to view images of constructive value, such as the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg and others, along with the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf. Fortunately, all the foregoing could become moot as one comes to prefer viewing constructive images with the aid of the Mandala. Q. What happens if I view the Mandala without a target? A. If the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf, is viewed without a target image, it targets the “images” of your subconscious – memories of reality, words, graphs, charts, musical notes, feelings, motor skills etc. - and the Mandala itself may seem brighter at certain points, representing heightened subconscious experience of these images’ aspects at corresponding quantity or probability combinations thereof at points in the base of Mandala and Probability Triangle - Corner.pdf. Also, your mind and body will be coming awake to themselves, and you may yawn and raise your arms as in awakening. After several minutes you may seem to tire of the Mandala, but the Mandala itself will not have lost its light. This could mean that the subconscious wants to make greater than the three-way comparisons of aspects of the subconscious than the Mandala will afford. So your eyes may close and your head drop in order to do so without distraction. Usually within fifteen to fifty minutes the Mandala does seem to lose its light, meaning that all aspects of your inner self possible at this time have been examined, understood, reorganized, and recorded with the fewest characters (nerve connections) possible. At this point you may be blissed out in relation to the conscious self and the outside world; so it may be a good idea to use the Mandala alongside visible, well composed, constructive images, such as the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg and others, until normal connectedness to the conscious self and the outside world returns. Any later effects that the Mandala may have on your internal self – a sense of oneness, grace, or vitality – or on your relationships with the outside world – acuity of senses, visual modeling, or eye-hand coordination – usually fade with the memory of the Mandala and your ability to visualize it, within one to seven days. Important Note: If you use the Mandala with normal target images before using it without them, you will likely find no benefit from the latter.
Q. How may the Mandala be used outside of viewing the detail of objects, videos and the subconscious? A. When your conscious self, by itself, is not up to a task, visualize the Mandala and your subconscious self may give greater depth, coherence and acuity to your feelings, thoughts and actions. This is especially true of moment to moment interactions: pounding a nail, making love or storytelling. Invoking the Mandala is also captured in the phrase, said to one’s self, “How do you feel about how you feel?” The second “feel” is your consciousness of the incapacity of your conscious self by itself and the first is your consciousness of your capacity of your conscious self in relation to your subconscious self mediated by the Mandala. This invocation seems to alert the subconscious that a verbal problem requires a verbal solution. It is not real-time but iterative: if, after its first utterances the subconscious does not provide a solution, saying it again makes your conscious self’s knowledge and aversion to this the new subject of the second “feel.” Repeating this procedure continuously, especially while walking, may finally pinpoint the solution, apparently at intersection of the several dimensions of feeling you have had, much as the Mandala finds a sub-sub area within a sub-area within an area.
Sports
After using the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf with the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg, my awareness, coordination, and teamwork in playing basketball went to a whole new, energetic plane I never dreamed possible. Apparently, when you view art or game tapes with the Mandala, you are viewing it as an artist: always seeing the whole of the work while accurately painting its smallest detail. The sports equivalent would be players being aware of everyone else’s moves while accurately and artfully executing their own on the canvass of the court.
A key to winning is the ability to discriminate the position and moves of your opponents amidst the noise and chaos of the battle. In the photograph of the Bed of Flowers.bmp, if the yellow flowers were neutral civilians, the purple our soldiers, and the red enemy soldiers, then we would want to eliminate the noise created by the camouflage of the leaves and grass and the similarity in shapes of all the flowers. My experienced correspondence to this while playing basketball, after viewing the Bed of Flowers.bmp with the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf, seemed remarkable.
Nature Appreciation and Stewardship
Reading a San Francisco Chronicle article on Farmer Veterans.pdf and then using the Mandala at How to Do It to appreciate a Vegetable Garden enhanced my love and respect for the community of living things.
Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design
Viewing with the Mandala the poster boards for the six winners (out of 131 entries) of the SanFrancisco Rising Tides competition is a quick education in the nature of environmental design – from schematics to visionary illustration.
Q & A
Q. How do I use the Mandala with a music visualizer?
A. The same way you do with target images.
Q. What is a music visualizer?
A. When I insert a music CD into my Windows computer, its media player’s visualizer converts the music into a colorfully animated display in the window that would ordinarily display DVD movies. If your media player does not have this option, it is readily available as a download from Apple at www.itunes.com; It comes bundled with their software package for downloading and playing music.
Q. How could the Mandala of Inspiration be used as a mandala of healing”?
A. If experiencing the minds of artists through their artworks with the aid of the Mandala gives you greater insight, you may experience other people you communicate with with greater insight as well, accompanied by the empathetic and curative effect concomitant to amicable communication. This may be enhanced when you visualize the Mandala or if you and the persons to be healed simultaneously use the Mandala in "viewing" the location of the disease.
Q. What images should not be used as objects of contemplation with the Mandala?
A. Those of unconstructive value. These images may at first look superlatively attractive and capture the eye. Continuing to view them, however, can lead to images of immediate gratification of raw sex, dominance, appetite, envy, leisure, luxury, music, escapism, vengeance, avarice, judgmentalism, anger, etc., followed by withdrawal feelings of depression, confusion or rage. The Mandala may speed up the knowledge and accuracy of this, finally resulting in aversion to the image viewed. Because, however, the Mandala quickens one’s knowledge it also intensifies the initial “too good to be true” attractiveness of these images, one may be tempted to view them again later when the aversion wears off, attempting to stop when the aversion phase begins. Doing so repeatedly, however can quickly warp one’s perspective, causing the onset of a more intense withdrawal. The antidote, when not repeatedly abused, is to view images of constructive value, such as the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg and others, along with the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf. Fortunately, all the foregoing could become moot as one comes to prefer viewing constructive images with the aid of the Mandala.
Q. What happens if I view the Mandala without a target?
A. If the Mandala of Inspiration.pdf, is viewed without a target image, it targets the “images” of your subconscious – memories of reality, words, graphs, charts, musical notes, feelings, motor skills etc. - and the Mandala itself may seem brighter at certain points, representing heightened subconscious experience of these images’ aspects at corresponding quantity or probability combinations thereof at points in the base of Mandala and Probability Triangle - Corner.pdf. Also, your mind and body will be coming awake to themselves, and you may yawn and raise your arms as in awakening. After several minutes you may seem to tire of the Mandala, but the Mandala itself will not have lost its light. This could mean that the subconscious wants to make greater than the three-way comparisons of aspects of the subconscious than the Mandala will afford. So your eyes may close and your head drop in order to do so without distraction. Usually within fifteen to fifty minutes the Mandala does seem to lose its light, meaning that all aspects of your inner self possible at this time have been examined, understood, reorganized, and recorded with the fewest characters (nerve connections) possible. At this point you may be blissed out in relation to the conscious self and the outside world; so it may be a good idea to use the Mandala alongside visible, well composed, constructive images, such as the Parrot_Lily_Flower.jpg and others, until normal connectedness to the conscious self and the outside world returns. Any later effects that the Mandala may have on your internal self – a sense of oneness, grace, or vitality – or on your relationships with the outside world – acuity of senses, visual modeling, or eye-hand coordination – usually fade with the memory of the Mandala and your ability to visualize it, within one to seven days. Important Note: If you use the Mandala with normal target images before using it without them, you will likely find no benefit from the latter.
Q. How may the Mandala be used outside of viewing the detail of objects, videos and the subconscious?
A. When your conscious self, by itself, is not up to a task, visualize the Mandala and your subconscious self may give greater depth, coherence and acuity to your feelings, thoughts and actions. This is especially true of moment to moment interactions: pounding a nail, making love or storytelling. Invoking the Mandala is also captured in the phrase, said to one’s self, “How do you feel about how you feel?” The second “feel” is your consciousness of the incapacity of your conscious self by itself and the first is your consciousness of your capacity of your conscious self in relation to your subconscious self mediated by the Mandala. This invocation seems to alert the subconscious that a verbal problem requires a verbal solution. It is not real-time but iterative: if, after its first utterances the subconscious does not provide a solution, saying it again makes your conscious self’s knowledge and aversion to this the new subject of the second “feel.” Repeating this procedure continuously, especially while walking, may finally pinpoint the solution, apparently at intersection of the several dimensions of feeling you have had, much as the Mandala finds a sub-sub area within a sub-area within an area.